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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2007;134:526-527
© 2007 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Brief Communication

Biatrial myxoma: An exceptional case in cardiac surgery

Elvyra Voluckiene, MD, PhD^_*, Gediminas Norknas, MD, PhD, Gintaras Kalinauskas, MD, PhD, Giedre Nogiene, PhD, Sigita Aidietiene, MD, PhD, Giedrius Udavinys, MD, PhD, Vytautas Sirvydis, MD, PhD

Heart Clinic, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.

Received for publication February 19, 2007; accepted for publication March 8, 2007.

^_* Address for reprints: Elvyra Voluckiene, MD, PhD, Vilnius University Hospital Santariskiu Clinics, Santariskiu 2, LT-08661 Vilnius, Lithuania. (Email: elvyra.voluckiene@santa.lt).

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Cardiac myxomas are benign intracavitary neoplasms. Their incidence in cardiac surgery is approximately 0.3%.^1,2 Biatrial myxomas are extremely rare. We review our experience with the successful management of a large biatrial myxoma in a middle-aged woman. This particular case is especially interesting because both stalks originated from opposite sides at the same point of the atrial septum, and it is possible that the myxomas grew evenly, one in the right atrium and the other in the left. Therefore one can say that they are myxoma twins.

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A previously healthy 63-year-old woman was referred to the cardiac surgery center after transthoracic echocardiography showed large tumor masses in the left and right atria (Figure 1). They were freely mobile and prolapsed through . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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